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    Though some women don’t feel the courage to face the challenges of having an “abnormal baby”‚ others are willing to accept their child as he/she is. In this story‚ The Monster on Her Cheek‚ Rebecca Roland demonstrates the emotional struggle but choosing to embrace her child either way. In the setting‚ Roland started off her narrative with a baby who was just born with a strange “monster” on her cheek. The nurse couldn’t look at Wendy‚ the mother‚ in the eyes and even apologized. This shows how even

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    Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Ivan Franko National University of Lviv The English Philology Department Syntactical Peculiarities of Postmodernist Text (based on the novel “Angels and Insects” by A.S. Byatt) Diploma paper presented by CULKA BUHRABAR‚ a 5th year student of the English Philology Department; scientific advisor

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    The drum machine‚ Roland TR-808 was made by Ikutaro Kakehashi in 1980 and was used in hip-hop and pop music frequently at first. It was a kind of keyboard with rhythm composer. The invention of TR-808 produce the music bass and drum sounds which also makes the music more complicated. (Tjora‚ Aksel H.‚ 2009) TR-808 gets both good and bad feedbacks. Some people think that 808 was a tragedy‚ but according to the article How the Roland TR-808 revolutionized music by Zainab Hasnain

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    Social Movement The death of Trayvon Martin sparked a fire. It caused individuals not only in the Florida community but throughout the land to ask for social change within the legal system. An innocent boy’s murdering has been compared to the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955. Trayvon Martin’s death has moved societal groups in a way that has not been seen in over forty years. Many individuals across the nation are angered that a young man who supposedly was just minding his business has been

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    Morris‚ D. (1982)‚ “Characteristics of TV commercials perceived as informative”‚ Journal of Advertising Research‚ Vol Achenbaum‚ A. (1989)‚ “How to breathe new life into brands”‚ Advertising Age‚ Vol. 60 No. 18‚ pp. 24-70. Barthes‚ R. (1964)‚ Elements of Semiology‚ Cape‚ London. Barthes‚ R. (1983)‚ The Fashion System‚ (translated by Ward‚ M. and Howard‚ R.)‚ Hill and Wang‚ New York‚ NY. Belk‚ R.W. (1983)‚ “Explanations for congruence between patron stereotypes and patron self- concepts”‚ Proceedings of

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    Ancient‚ medieval and early modern * Hammurabi (died c. 1750 BCE) * Confucius (551-479 BCE) * Socrates (470-399 BCE) * Mozi (470-390 BCE) * Xenophon (427-355 BCE) * Plato (427-347 BCE) * Diogenes of Sinope (412-323 BCE) * Aeschines (389-314 BCE) * Aristotle (384-322 BCE) * Mencius (372-289 BCE) * Chanakya (350-283 BCE) * Xun Zi (310-237 BCE) * Thiruvalluvar (c. 200 BCE-c. 30 BCE) * Han Feizi (?-233 BCE) * Cicero (106-43 BCE) * Pliny the Younger (63-113 CE) * Saint

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    Compare and Contrast paper After reading a book and then watching the movie based on that book‚ generally people will say they feel disappointed because the movie lacks its heart and substance. Even though the movie The Scarlet Letter‚ directed by Roland Joffé‚ is based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel‚ it offers different characters and plot than the novel. However‚ the book captivates people more. In both‚ the story takes place in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ in seventeenth century. The Scarlet Letter is

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    “There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre” (Vonnegut‚ 19). Kurt Vonnegut experienced first hand the Dresden Fire Bombing of World War II. The Dresden Fire Bombing was a massacre that was designed by the allies to kill as many German civilians as possible. Because of Vonnegut’s war torn mind‚ it took him nearly 25 years to write Slaughterhouse-Five‚ a fictionalized account of the fire bombing of Dresden and about the destructiveness of war. Slaughterhouse-Five has been widely criticized

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    Q: It is often argued that violence in texts is overdone and unnecessary‚ but can also be regarded as an element of conflict and resolution. Many literary texts glorify violence and war‚ presenting it as a noble and heroic cause‚ which for readers creates and exciting‚ fulfilling plot. In Slaughterhouse 5‚ the author Kurt Vonnegut uses atypical methods of presenting violence in the novel‚ which becomes important in the conveyance of the novels ideas. Vonnegut‚ although incorporating violence into

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    characterized by small changes to an organization ’s strategy‚ structure‚ people‚ or processes‚ Dunphy and Stace suggest(1993) that these changes are typically manifested at the departmental or divisional levels of a firm (Alannah E. Rafferty‚ Roland H. Simons‚ 2006‚ pp 329). It often used in companies which are trying to make small changes in companies when in pass or nowadays. It is also suitable for the modern technologic style - fine-tuning organizational change might entail refining policies

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